Former Marine pleads innocent to killing four in Albertson's

A March 6 trial date was set for Zane Floyd, who is charged with entering an Albertson's store last month and blasting away with a shotgun. Four employees were killed and another seriously injured.

District Attorney Stewart Bell formally told District Judge Jeff Sobel that prosecutors would seek the death penalty for Floyd, a 23-year-old who was a part-time bar bouncer living with his parents at the time of the June 3 shootings.

Bell asked for an expedited trial, but Sobel said his court calendar was packed and the trial could go no earlier than next spring. Sobel told attorneys for both sides, however, that the March 6 date should be considered firm.

The court appearance came after attorneys for Floyd waived his right to a preliminary hearing last month after the judge refused to ban live television coverage of the hearing.

In addition to four murder charges, Floyd faces two attempted murder charges and four sexual assault charges.

The sexual assault charges stem from a 20-year-old woman's complaint that she was raped by Floyd after being sent to his home by an adult escort service in the hours before the shootings.

Four Albertson's employees died and one other was seriously wounded when a man dressed in fatigues and carrying a shotgun entered the store and began shooting at everyone he saw.

Floyd was apprehended as he left the store.

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